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See also:DIKE, or DYKE (Old Eng. dic, a word which appears in various forms in many See also:Teutonic See also:languages, cf. Dutch dijk, See also:German Teich, Danish dige, and in See also:French, derived from Teutonic, digue; it is the same word as " ditch " and is ultimately connected with the ro
ot of " dig "), properly a See also:trench dug out of the See also:earth for defensive and other purposes
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See also:Water naturally collects in such trenches, and hence the word is applied to natural and artificial channels filled with water, as appears in the proverbial expression " See also:February fill-dyke," and in the names of many narrow water-ways in See also:East Anglia
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" See also:Dike " also is naturally used of the See also:bank of earth thrown up out of the ditch, and so of any See also:embankment, See also:dam or See also:causeway, particularly the defensive See also:works in See also: |
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